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Originally slated to take place in Copley Square, the vigil was moved to Harvard Square after a midday bomb scare and FBI raid caused the original location’s safety to be called into question...
...Federal Aviation Administration vows to increase security at all U.S. airports, including Logan, by employing more plainclothes security personnel, sweeping airports with bomb-sniffing dogs, discontinuing curbside check-in and increasing the occurrence of random ID checks. Airports will also vigilantly tow any unauthorized vehicle parked within 300 feet of a terminal...
...bomb threats and evacuations rippled through everyday populus loci like Pennsylvania Station and Time Square on Wednesday night and salarymens? midtown spires in a freshly repopulated midtown on Thursday, New Yorkers, at least, are getting a look at Phase...
...Dulles; United Flight 175 left Boston at 7:58, and United Flight 93 left Newark three minutes later, bound for San Francisco. All climbed into beautiful clear skies, all four planes on transcontinental flights, plump with fuel, ripe to explode. "They couldn't carry anything--other than an atom bomb--that could be as bad as what they were flying," observed a veteran investigator...
...until someone remembered there was a TV in a nearby office. The President finally entered, about 35 minutes late, and made his brief comments. "This is a difficult time for America," he began. He ordered a massive investigation to "hunt down the folks who committed this act." Meanwhile the bomb dogs took a few extra passes through Air Force One, and an extra fighter escort was added. But the President too was going to have trouble getting home...